Roland dBeam Keyboard A49 (& A88)

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Yeah, Roland sells Keyboards with dBeams, I never quite liked that Bender principle, but having a free assignable dBeam or 2 has always been part of my wet dreams, so I still have a wishlist (3 Octave iPadable dual dBeam version), but this is worth a second look.. 180€ for one seems „ok“, no 3 Octave Version, but lots of good things and I trust Roland more to have a quite good one inside, well – let’s wait till they are really touchable. available as A49 and A88, so the…

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Sormina – 8 „finger controllers“ used very differently

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Forum • Sormina – 8 Drehscheiben ganz anders… this thing seems to come from a Finnish guy called Juhani Räisänen. As you can see it is about more deep nuance of one sounds – to have full control via all fingers – all sent wirelessly to the host computer and sent to synths or softsynths. of course those 8 controllers send out MIDI controller data. in english it’s name could be „fingerina“ (as well as in german) – hmm, how to control pitch and sounds equally or – how do…

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Boomstar 4075 Analog Synth Demo (Arp Model)

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Studio Electronics new synth will be available in 4 flavours, one of them being the ARP filter one, here’s the demo – all with distortion and saturation.  said something on this quite a time ago große Umfrage – welcher Analogmonosynth ist wirklich cool (neu):  Forum: Welcher neue Analogsynthesizer ist wirklich interessant? GAS-Umfrage: Neuanaloge… 1x Multi Timbral, 1 Voice, (2012) Studio Electronics Boomstar 3003, Boomstar 4075, Boomstar 5089 AnalogSynthesizer   &Boomstar SEM Analog Synthesizer  

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2 Projects introduced – Raspberry Pi running Pure Data / Parallella for audio multi threaded/core operation – platform

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This is the small raspberry PI Computer, which is nerdy as hell, but a very nice chance to get even a synth to work with this project – didn’t know it was fast enough so – here’s a demo of it strange, that guy wrote on his Remote XL instead of using the display, but he’s more clever than I am, since he knows how to handle this: first session with the Raspberry Pi running Pure Data. I’m running Pd 0.44 (test version) with „-nogui -noadc -alsa“ flags + a…

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Synth-Project presents: The Little Shruthi-1 Keyboard – A closer look (not a musical demo)

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Synth-Project did it again building a synth keyboard and knobs around the well known Shruti -1 vom Mutable Instruments – not that it is a functional more fun to play work, no it is just also looking nice – reminds a bit of a slightly flattened little phatty – so this is a bit more than a „controller“ – it’s a mod. -> Mutable Shruti , Shruti XL Synth the standard Shruti -1 looks like this and sounds like this:

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